There was a split second between pages in Batman and Robin #8 when I was expecting to see a horrible replay of the final scene that dare not not be named from Star Wars: Episode III. What happened instead felt much more like Batman, as did this entire issue, and I’m pleased to report back … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #76: ‘Batman and Robin’ #8
Rene Engström’s Anders Loves Maria is filled with language, nudity, and indecent everyday situations that are bound to offend many people, and it has soured the words of critics whose blogging I have read. It is also a hybrid work of English infused with occasional Swedish that has been an odyssey in of itself to … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #75: ‘Anders Loves Maria’
Any message board trolls who have ever doubted the talents of Darick Robertson should take a long hard look at this one-shot that came out from Dark Horse in January. Conan the Cimmerian: The Weight of the Crown is a 40-page self-contained tale both written and drawn by the Transmetropolitan and Boys artist, and his … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #74: ‘Conan the Cimmerian: The Weight of the Crown’
From the time I first saw a Yellow Lantern ring try to latch itself onto Batman, I knew Geoff Johns would come the point where rings began flying around and causing apocalyptically colorful fights with scenes like Hal Jordan thwacking a giant green hammer through a zombie Spectre’s lower jaw. That one wins my favorite … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #73: ‘Green Lantern’ #50
“You little men in your little suits. That is all you ever do. It makes no difference whether you craft them from iron or steel or uru…There is no metal in your hearts.” –Thor Kieron Gillen’s Thor writing can really make your heart thump, and that little exchange he had with Dr. Doom in Thor … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #72: ‘Thor’ #606
There was a distinct up-shift in story density and quality going from Batman and Robin #6 to issue #7. Watching the creative team from Seaguy reunite was a pleasure in and of itself, but the book as a whole just feels like a much better all-around product and closer to what I originally expected from … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #71: ‘Batman and Robin’ #7
I’m sure this will sound foreign to a lot of readers, but Solomon Kane: Death’s Black Riders #1 read like the opening half hour of a GURPS quest, which is to say the story style will be readily digestible and recognizable to the seasoned fantasy reader. It’s a dark and violent first issue for this … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #70: ‘Solomon Kane: Death’s Black Riders’ #1
The way Jeff Smith puts a book together makes the process feel so effortless from the reader’s seat. Rasl #6 stars off on an odd note. You almost get the sensation that you accidentally bought Smith’s condensed biography of Nikola Tesla with Rasl #6. Literally, the historical narrative he offers at first feels slightly disjointed … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #69: ‘Rasl’ #6
At nine pages of story with a some script pages from Alan Moore’s August 2010-launching series from Avatar, the Neonomicon Hornbook did make me crunch my forehead for a few seconds before laying down the $1.99 in the same stack of bills that bought Joe the Barbarian #1 for a buck, but I really do … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #68: ‘Neonomicon Hornbook’
Well, one issue into Grant Morrison and Sean Murphy’s Joe the Barbarian #1 I neither thought it was as deeply constructed as David Brothers over at Comics Alliance concluded or as cataclysmically phoned in as MarkAndrew over at CBR articulated. Instead, I think I’m somewhere in the middle and of the mind that the story … Read more100 Days, 100 Comics #67: ‘Joe the Barbarian’ #1